Personal Experiences

Asylum Associates and Bobbywood have produced a new free video about the personal experience of three people who hear voices – Bob, Kate and Shaun. Please feel free to watch, listen, share and comment. Thanks to Bob, Kate and Shaun for being so generous with their personal experiences.

By Stuart Cox BA MA About the Author: Stuart is an NHS office worker who started hearing an intelligent, manipulative, aggressive and bitter voice in October of 2004. The voice could read his memory and thoughts. The voice sometimes seemed to be one voice ,sometimes many voices and sometimes one voice pretending to be many […]

Contributed by Domicile Please note: These experience contain descriptions of some frightening experiences. Please take care of yourself when reading – and, if it triggers anything for you, please do get some help. As Domicile suggests at the end of this, ‘Call a friend or relative and ask them to keep you company .. I’ve done it many […]

Contributed by Jo Twist I was given a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia nearly twenty years ago. Although this was initially a relief, it gradually became a problem in itself. The diagnosis serves to explain to yourself, family and friends why you have been behaving like this for so long, in my case for the last four […]

Contributed By Rachel Waddingham Over the last 12 years, I’ve been struggling to find ways of dealing with the voices I hear. For much of that time I’ve been taking enough neuroleptic medication to knock out a horse. Meds are a bit like putting a giant mattress over the voices – I find it dulled […]

Eleanor Longden was a diagnosed schizophrenic and heard menacing voices in her head for 10 years. Now, she has fought back and has graduated with a brilliant honours degree in psychology. By Nina Lakhani, The Independent, Sunday 25th October, 2009 Eleanor Longden was revising for her final university exams in May when she was interrupted […]

Dean Smith, in the Guardian on Saturday 4th April 2009 I was working as a holiday rep in Brittany 15 years ago when I started hearing voices. I was in my mid-20s and thought it was my mates mucking about. I looked inside and outside the flat to see where they were. It felt really […]